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Concerts and Workshops to Inspire Your Community
Erica Wheeler offers public programs that bring people together through story, music, reflection, and shared experience.
These programs are designed to be accessible, engaging, and meaningful—helping people slow down, reconnect, and feel a sense of connection and belonging to the places and communities they share and a deeper sense of personal restoration and well-being.
All public programs draw from Erica’s Sense of Place and Story Framework that helps inspire connections between people and place.
These program formats are designed to be fun, inviting, meaningful and easy to host.
Program Options:
Sense of Place Concerts
Experience a curated journey through song, story, and conversation that helps you connect with yourself, your surroundings, and each other.
These inspiring concerts offer more than entertainment. Erica curates her performances to enrich a sense of place— celebrating the time of year, and the nature and history where you are. These create moments of shared reflection, warmth, and connection—helping audiences feel rooted in place and present with one another.
With six albums, features on NPR's All Things Considered, and recognition from Yankee Magazine to the Washington Post, these performances bring top-notch artistry to community-centered gatherings.
Program details:
45 to 75- minute program
Bose 1 sound system can be included within 250 miles of Massachusetts.
Investment: $1,000 to $1,500 Why it matters:
In a time when many feel disconnected from nature, from one another, from shared history and heritage, this work offers a way back: a path to deeper presence, connection,
When we reclaim our stories of place, we don’t just preserve our past—we imagine a more connected and caring future and experience the present more fully.
“We cannot save what we do not love”
—Stephen Jay Gould
Sense of Place Concerts
Experience a curated journey through song, story, and conversation that helps you connect with yourself, your surroundings, and each other.
These inspiring concerts offer more than entertainment. Erica curates her performances to enrich a sense of place— celebrating the time of year, and the nature and history where you are. These create moments of shared reflection, warmth, and connection—helping audiences feel rooted in place and present with one another.
With six albums, features on NPR's All Things Considered, and recognition from Yankee Magazine to the Washington Post, these performances bring top-notch artistry to community-centered gatherings.
Program details:
45 to 75- minute program
Bose 1 sound system can be included within 250 miles of Massachusetts.
Investment: $1,000 to $1,500
Concert Format Options:
Sense of Place Concert - Seasonal, location-specific journeys celebrating where you are
Milestones & Celebrations - Curated programs honoring your organization's story
Campfire-Style Concerts - Warm, participatory experiences. A few sing-alongs too!
"Erica's music takes the audience on a trip through space and time. When she paints a landscape with song, she strikes a chord that resonates at a deep emotional level. This powerful food for the soul moves people to question the conventions we use to value property—and to value themselves as stewards."
— Baltimore Woods Nature Center, NY
Creative Workshops
These hands-on workshops guide participants through writing, creative reflection, and sensory awareness—helping them uncover their own stories of place and meaning and recharge their connection to themselves, their surroundings and others.
With decades of experience facilitating workshops for wellness retreats to national events , Erica brings her skills working with parks and museums and a creative depth to each session.
For program coordinators:
Formats: Programs run 90 minutes to 3 hours
Investment: $500 to $1,000
Package rates available for workshop series or multiple sessions.
Workshop Options:
1. Touchstone Story Writing Workshop - Guided writing and sensory awareness practices to uncover personal sense of place stories and connections
2. Vision Board in a Box™ Wellness Workshop- Creative reflection for goal-setting and visioning to nourish our inner self and envision our next steps
"At the end of the 3-part writing prompt, I had enough material to write several powerful essays as well as a new idea for an inspirational card deck. If that wasn't enough, Erica listened to what I wrote and, as a demonstration, in less than a minute had whipped up a terrific song." — Giulietta "Julie" Nardone, DCR Workshop Series,Upton State Forest, MA
Let’s work together!
Interested in hosting a concert or creative workshop?
Ideal for: Retreats, libraries, learning centers, concert series, speaker series, workshop series.
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